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Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 10:44:12 -0800
From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
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To: "martin.berner@braunvieh.ch" <martin.berner@braunvieh.ch>
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Subject: Re: Optimicing Postgres for SunSolaris10 on V240
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Berner,

First, I've corrected you e-mail so that it goes to the list, and not to 
me directly.

> I use my PostgreSQL 8.0.4 as Catalogue-Database for Bacula.
> Bacula is a Backupsoftware.

Yes.  The lead contributor to Bacula is a active PostgreSQL project 
participant; I'll see if he'll look into your issue.

> When I backing up System (lot of very small Files) then PostgreSQL seams to by the bottleneck by inserting Catalogueinformation of every single File.
> The System on which Postgres runs is a Sun Solaris 10 Server on a Sun Fire V240 with 1GB RAM, 1CPU (SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIIi at 1.3GHz), 2 Ultra SCSI-3 Disks 73GB at 10k RPM which are in Raid1 (Solaris Softraid).
> 
> Can someone gif me a hint for compiling PostgreSQL or configuring the Database.
> 
> fsync is already disabled..

This is a bad idea if you care about your database.

So, PostgreSQL 8.1 is now official supported by Sun and ships with 
Solaris 10 update 2 or later.  It is recommended that you use that 
rather and an out-of-date version.   Second, see 
www.powerpostgresql.com/PerfList

--Josh Berkus